THE NATURALNESS IN/OF THE ARTIFICIALITY OF CLONING
THE NATURALNESS IN/OF THE ARTIFICIALITY OF CLONING

Summary/Abstract: This paper is an empirico-inductive attempt towards a commonsense defense of (reproductive) cloning. Cloning simply defined is the scientist’s photocopying or replication of the bit or part or entirety of an organism. Organisms replicated either in part or whole necessarily and essentially share same genetic template with the original stuck. Since the first attempt towards cloning by scientists it has attracted formidable retribution and disapprobation from conservative minded scholars and other conservative members and institutions of the society. One of the most positive points of order often raise against the art and science of cloning is that it is an artificial intrusion into the natural order of organisms. Without undermining the cogency of this point of disapproval, this paper employing the expository analytic method painstakingly, through a commonsense approach, demonstrates the naturalness in the artificiality of cloning. The analysis reveals that ironically, cloning has been occurring naturally in plants, animals and humans in natural reproductive process. An apt example to this effect in humans is the instances and phenomena of monozygotic twins otherwise known as identical twins.

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